55th Grammy Winners

The winners at the 55th annual Grammy Awards have been revealed.
The big winner of the night was Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, who took home a whopping four Grammys including Producer Of The Year and Best Rock Album with "El Camino".
A handful of artists took home three awards including Gotye for Record Of The Year, Best Pop Duo Performance with Kimbra, and Best Alternative Album with "Making Mirrors".
Mumford & Sons won the coveted Album Of The Year award, but didn't expect it. Maybe they should have, because "Babel" sold a record-breaking 600,000 in its first week in the US, and 1.7 million sales in total since its launch.
"We had six nominations and during the pre-telecast one after another went to (other bands)," singer Marcus Mumford told Billboard on the night. "We resigned ourselves (to not winning). Last year was Adele's year and this year will be the Black Keys'. It's not just bulls--t, we really didn't care about winning."
Sir Paul McCartney also won a Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album with "Kisses On The Bottom".
Not everyone was happy with the Grammy ceremony. Slipknot singer Corey Taylor voiced his concern that the Grammys give too little coverage to heavy music:

I'm happy for Halestorm, but sad because the Grammys don't respect our genre AT ALL. We get one category and it's not even televised.

Fuck this big time. I'm pretty sure Gotye's album was released in 2011? Even though it's good to see a fellow Aussie on there, surely there was a halfway decent album made in 2012 that could've won lol

I literally forgot about "Somebody that I used to know" until the Grammys. The song is completely irrelevant now, so it definitely shouldn't have won. Hell, at least people are still making shitty parodies of "Call Me Maybe", no matter how bad it is.

LL Cool J was so annoying for the whole show. "Follow us all on Twitter, #Grammys #JackWhite #Adele, Like us on FaceBook" The whole thing stank of social media advertising. Please get someone else to host next year...

Me too. If they truly think Halestorm is good music, they're f*cked in the head. Of course, that's the problem; they act like it's all about "good music", when it's really about what they consider socially acceptable and popular.

Halestorm is one of the few bands keeping good rock alive? I'm sorry, but you may as well stop listening to the genre if you think that. Halestorm's music is basically a combination of the watered down hard rock peddled by Nickelback and Theory of a Dead Man crossed with the "i'm a vapid *****" lyrics of 1990s pop singers like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. There is nothing redeeming about their music at all, and this band would be completely written off if their singer/guitarist didn't have a vagina.

They're not bad as musicians, they're just too overplayed. I'm already sick of that Some Nights song. One of my friends wanted to cover it for his band, and to me it felt like he just said "I want to cover Smells Like Teen Spirit." Overexposure is killing all of these potentially able bands.

I thankfully started listening to the radio right when Some Night's radioplay was dwindling on my local rock station so it doesn't feel overplayed to me. That's my reward for not listening to the radio :3

I think they saw Explorers and Flying Vs and assumed that was "metal" enough for the dubstep jumping, black eyed peas listening audience that the grammys still actually appeal to.
This is why the metal scene has the Golden Gods and whatever Kerrang passes off as an award ceremony, because the grammys aren't relevent to anyone but the pop and mainstream artists.

Gotye is awesome - you should really listen to his albums - sure 'Somebody I used to know' isn't particularly innovative but the way that guy manipulates his sounds and creates his textures is really something to be admired.

Like Drawing Blood is one of the best albums in Australian music history. He's got such a great voice and he's an excellent musician. He really needs more respect on these forums, all the metalheads just judge him on that one song, which isn't a bad song at all.

Mumford & Sons deserve their fame...I'm a big metal head but I love Mumford so much...really they earned it all to me...they're incredibly talented and they write with true emotion...not just to make a hit.

Combines well with UG articles too. Around 10% of less are actually of musical interest. The rest is just rumours (some even made by UG), or stupid pointless celebrity/politics gossip.
That and the fact UG writers can't submit a article that's well written from start to finish. Do they even give any care of what they write?

I'm disappointed but not surprised about Gaslight. The people that select this shit are completely clueless, and have been for a long time. Best thing to do as real music fans is not tune in and give them any ratings. 59' Sound is one of my favorite albums of all time.

"...first woman to ever win..."
Reminds me of The Hurt Locker, even though it's a feat to be the first woman to win.... gender, race or what not shouldn't be the reason someone wins.
I always thought it was about the final product, the composition. However lately it's quite obvious that that's not the case. Actually i doubt it ever really was.

Exactly why I get enraged about the Black music awards , anyone white should be wearing a white pointy hat if thats the attitude taken .
Having said that , is the Country Music Awards KKK backed ?
Green , blue , black , white , man , woman , don't matter music is music .

Most of the time yes but not all the time, and that is the problem sometimes its based on popularity and ratings and other times they try to be "artistic", for example two years ago Justin Heber lost best new artist to Esperanza Spalding(a jazz bassist/singer)

Don't know about anyone else, but I'm happy about metal not being included. I prefer music from smaller labels like Earache over huge companies anyway in general. The more distanced from the big monopolies it is the better.

the grammys are bullshit, they have 5 categories for pop, 3 for dance, 100000 for gay and talentless, and 1 for metal. That is
hard rock and metal. rly?! not even a single category for metal.
corey taylor is right, the gramys have fallen just to mainstream crap. I need to remind myself why i even bother with this crap.

Metalheads will be hating as they obviously already are....but i found this years grammys actually enjoyable to someone who enjoys every genre. Look at the winners y'all. I prefer those artist compared to all the crap we've had to endure the past few years. No gaga, no bieber...nothing of that sort. Downvote if you want but thats my opinion.

I'm really coming to the conclusion that Halestorm fans will eat up just about anything because of Lizzy Hale. I get that she's hot by some people's standards. What I don't get is how their music is good.

I like how everyone is blaming the Grammys for the fact that Metal music isn't commercially popular. I'm surprised Halestorm got something, I didn't think they were very big. I guess if the Grammys were actually objective you'd have a reason to complain, but we all know its an award for being popular, and the fact is that Metal just isn't one of the most popular genres.

I'm pretty displeased with the grammys like most people, but I don't see the big deal about metal not being represented. I bet there's a bunch of people who follow ___ genre who complain about not being represented.

My point is that sometimes it seems like people think metal deserves to be popular more than other things, and people from other genres think their genre deserves to be the most popular too. Then in the even it does become popular people complain about the amount of generic artist (since popularity needs to happen with appeal).
Popularity arguments are pretty damned either result. I don't find it worth bothering about.

Metal is not supposed to be "popular more than other things". It doesn't strive to be popular. But one thing is for sure - with all the stereotyping, condemnation and discrimination it endured for almost half a century now despite the quality and technicality of it's craft, I guess the genre should get the respect it deserves.
After all, the Grammy's is not "supposed" to be a popularity contest but an award giving body for musicians (regardless of genre) who give out quality music for all the listeners. But sad realities of it all are: no. 1 - it only seemed as a popularity contest now (it no longer functions based on it's design) and no. 2 - for many decades now, Metal is not represented equally with other genres.
Now, I hope everyone understands what all of us Metalheads (fans and musicians) are rambling about.

I don't know a lot of 80's pop stuff doesn't do it for me very much with the exception of a few (most of which I attribute to nostalgia).
It's all taste in the end anyways so I'll stop dragging out the argument.

You got to be kidding me, even pink floyd became painfully cheesy in the eighties, now cheesy doesn't necessarily mean bad, muse is cheesy as shit and I love em. It's just that a lot of eighties radio material try's to be emotional and epic but comes off as the musical equivalent of a soap opera, and the hair metal is simplistic to the point of me feeling a couple IQ points less just for listening to it. Although to be fair I feel the same away about most mainstream bands right now as well so it's really just business as usual.

I'm just going to listen to and appreciate whatever music it is that I enjoy, and not give a **** about how some pompous assclowns who don't even listen to the genre(s) judge something which they know nothing about. Any awards show which judges the merit of something so subjective such as music can't possibly make any sense.

Frankly, I prefer that metal is not "mainstream". The last time metal was popular, the record companies gave us Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, et al and beat us over the heads with them. So I'd ask the Grammy's to please keep metal off the invite list. We are doing just fine on our own.

Dude, there are these things called "opinions." As it turns out, you're not the only one who's allowed to have one. Don't you have something better to do than continuously comment with the usual "STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE" shtick?

I only scrolled all the way down here to say that I don't give a sweet and sour FUCK about the Grammy's. If I had one, I'd use it to bludgeon the first person I saw that also had a Grammy, and was proud of having it.

I love metal, and as much I would like it to be more recognizable in mainstream media I really don't care about the grammy's. We know how the so called industry works, If it's not radio friendly and doesn't fall into society conformative standars there's almost no chance for it to win. But I'm happy that Priest got one last year

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It's increasingly obvious year by year that the people voting for the hard rock/heavy metal grammy award have no f***ing clue what constitutes a good metal song. That Halestorm song is terrible, the other 5 nominated songs were exponentially better. Lamb of God got robbed, and Megadeth deserves to win once, they've gotten nominated 11 times and never won!

If I ever become a famous musician and make it the grammies...more importantly get to perform at the grammies...Fuck whatever type of music I play, it's going to Reign Blood....SLAYER!!!! Just to mess with everyone

That's why I don't mind the fact that the Grammys ignore metal. Even if they did have a few metal awards, they would still be giving them to the wrong bands. They never judge talent, remember when Justin Beiber and Drake dominated last year?

The newest Black Keys album has more originality, attitude and bombastic sound then practically ANYTHING else out there in hard rock or even metal right now.
Does Corey Taylor want more respect for metal? Then maybe metal should bring back more attitude and originality. You can deny it all you want, but I'd say, right now 80-90 percent of LISTENABLE metal sounds interchangable. Whether its the same shreddy guitars in some dropped tuning, or the same screamy/cookie monstery vocals.
IMO the only two original and cutting edge metal bands right now are Mastodon and Revocation.
That Black Keys album KILLS and unlike alot of other crap coming out, it won so many awards because in 15 years from now it won't sound dated...
UNLIKE Corey Taylor's first albums with Slipknot OR Stone Sour.
*I also say this AS a Stone Sour AND and Metal fan, but even I can see the genres current limitations compared to the burgeoning indie rock scene...

No, I just heard the word "mastodon" and assumed they sounded cool.
"The Hunter" and any of their other albums sounded better then almost anything else "metal" that comes out. Possibly because they site bands like Neurosis as in influence instead of the usual megadeth/iron maiden/metallica/black sabbaths...
Also, I would say Opeth is recently less metal and more prog-rock, especially on their newest album "Heritage"
So yeah, you can try and condescend me some more, but I've probably already listened to everything you thought was cool and already drew my own conclusions about it.
Thanks for playing, though.

A little late... now, no disrespect, they are still good, just used to be much more energetic. But look at some of what has won. I use the standard in this day and age that if the mainstream is lauded it it likely sucks. I hate to be that way but it's unfortunately becoming more true.

A little late... now, no disrespect, they are still good, just used to be much more energetic. But look at some of what has won. I use the standard in this day and age that if the mainstream is lauded it, it likely sucks. I hate to be that way but it's unfortunately becoming more true.

good list, Gotye deserves it with his unique approach and great songs, The Black Keys are fabulous and go Dr John and Bonnie Rait , I will say the problem with metal is it's not very good to listen to, not bad circus act though

In the past, music was an art form in mainstream society. People actually had an overall more respect for the music itself, not the image or money in can create and produce. Will we ever go back to that when people were able to make good music and not garbage that's recycled by different artists (I'm talking to you Nicki Minaj). I don't know but greed and shitty image has poisoned our culture today.

I don't fully agree with Corey Taylor on this one. Metal (in all its glory, regardless of sub-genre) has never really needed respect from the masses to survive. Its sort of like cockroaches, you can try killing them off, but if you step on the wrong one, thousands more will be waiting in the wings to take its place, thats how its always been.

Good for Mumford and Sons for their snooze tunes. They're not for me. For the record Gotye can go to bed knowing that everytime that flaming piece of shit "Somebody That I Used to know" is played, a box of kittens is killed and a Girl Scout is kicked down a flight of stairs. Good job dillhole.